Dear Steve,
> In the near future we will be running supervised clustering
> experiments as a routine analysis in the lab. Can anyone
> give me an opinion on what may be the best software and or
> hardware that would be useful to use if we are doing this as
> routine.
You may wanna consider our 'supclust'-package which is available
from CRAN. It implements two algorithms for supervised
clustering, Wilma and Pelora. They are both described in
published papers, please check my website
http://stat.ethz.ch/~dettling
for details.
Best regards,
Marcel
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ETH Zürich
Seminar für Statistik
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